This week's 'Wednesday Wrap-Up' features Zozo, Gucci, Free People, and more. Additionally, we have a few extra bits of news snippets at the end of the segment. - Zozo Announces the Zozomat, Allowing Customers to Scan Their Feet in 3D to Get the Best Fit PossibleYusaku Mawzawa, founder of Japanese online retail website Zozotown (and internationally famous for being SpaceX's first commercial passenger), announced that his company would be providing a new service, named the Zozomat. The Zozomat will be implemented so that customers can scan their own feet from the comfort of their own home, so ..read more

This week's 'Wednesday Wrap-Up' features NOMI, ASOS, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Facebook, Farfetch, and more. Additionally, we have a few extra bits of news snippets at the end of the news segment. - NOMI: The Female-Founded Fashion-Tech Startup Launches Shopping Platform Based on Your Style Finnish start-up NOMI has launched a totally different shopping experience for women with a platform that helps women discover their own sense of dressing style, and thus be able to shop with greater clarity. This is done through a picture-based questionnaire taken by the user so to gauge certain tastes a ..read more

It's no secret that London is currently one of the biggest Fashion Tech hubs in the world, with start-up after start-up coming out of the capital. Since that fateful day three years ago, there's been news of sector after sector in the UK facing difficulties sure to Brexit and its uncertainties, this has certainly not been the case for the Fashion Tech industry in London. This has been mainly due to London being a fashion capital, London's geographical location between Europe and the Americas, low start-up costs in Fashion Tech, and plenty of available capital not seen since pre-2008. Nonethele ..read more

Digital fashion house and Dutch startup, The Fabricant, recently sold a digital dress for $9,500 on its blockchain. The dress, named Iridescence, was designed by 3D artist Johanna Jaskowska and is another iteration of the digital clothing movement. The Fabricant had this to say on their Instagram page, after making the sale: “$9,500 for the first ever digital couture to be auctioned on the blockchain. We actually sold one of our items that has never been physical. Someone owns it now, and will be able to wear it if they choose to.”  Although, you may never be able to touch and feel it, The Fa ..read more

Search engines are (for most of us) limited to text based searches, thus limiting the scope of your search. While there are alternatives such as an image search with Google Images, Fashwell brings a new dimension.  Fashwell is a Zurich-based startup, with it being founded in 2014 by Matthias Dantone, Lukas Bossard, and Michael Emmersberger. Fashwell’s goal is to be the leader in technology for “image by search”, and according to the founders, Fashwell currently offers the highest precision in product detection on the market. So, what does Fashwel do? Fashwell recognizes products in images by ..read more

Louis Vuitton has released a new collection of handbags this month… well, they’re not really just any handbags, they’re handbags with built-in technology. Though wearable tech is not new to fashion, it has been slow to take up with the higher-end, luxury fashion brands. Louis Vuitton’s venture into fashion tech involves their bags having flexible digital touchscreens on them.  The bags were showcased at the Cruise 2020 show at the TWA flight centre at JFK airport in New York, with the screens displaying moving images of cities. Behind the tech bags is Louis Vuitton’s creative director Nicolas ..read more

The Italian luxury brand, Gucci, is beginning to integrate artificial intelligence within its supply chain and stores to combat waste. Many labels within the fashion industry incur significant environmental and financial costs annually due to the oversupply of products which turns into waste. It is estimated by consultancy company, McKinsey, that the integration of AI could help reduce the amount of forecasting errors by 50%, which could lead to between 20% and 50% in reduction of overall inventory. This is exactly why Kering is leading the charge for AI integration. Kering, the company that o ..read more

A company set up by MIT graduates called Glitch, is the first fashion label to sell dresses that are completely generated by machine learning software. Pinar Yanardag and Emily Salvador were influenced to build the software after creating AI-generated art, perfume, and jewellery whilst they were in university They currently have a couple of designs to choose from that are available, with 50% of sales going towards an organization that supports women aiming to enter STEM fields. The idea behind the AI generated dresses is to encourage more women to enter the AI space by showcasing one of the ar ..read more

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